would you count darts as cardio??

I used to obsess over calories burned - vaccuuming, sleeping, reading, laughing - I logged it all, as well as every calorie eaten. Oh, that was also when I had the worst eating habits of my life!

Now I only consider real, dedicated training to be exercise - heart rate should be in zone 3 or higher. Even a "sedentary" lifestyle assumes you do the dishes and play darts once in a while. If it's not exercise, and you're not working to increase your strength/cardiovascular capacity, don't waste your time logging it!

no

only if there is a fist fight lasting 30 minutes or longer afterwards....

Judging by the size of most darts players (even those of competition standard) I would say it doesn't strike me as a particularly effective form of exercise...

But perhaps it's the fact that most of them are consuming 5 pints of lager during every game that negates "the burn"... :huh:

Now I only consider real, dedicated training to be exercise - heart rate should be in zone 3 or higher. Even a "sedentary" lifestyle assumes you do the dishes and play darts once in a while. If it's not exercise, and you're not working to increase your strength/cardiovascular capacity, don't waste your time logging it!

After checking what Zone 3 might be I stumbled upon http://www.sarkproducts.com/targetzonecalculator.htm

Putting my pesonal values in my Zone 3 starts at 140 bpm. I'd be careful using things like that to judge if something is training or not. Yesterday i did an LSD-training http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_slow_distance on my bycicle ergometer, at an average heart rate of 121. I rode 2:30 hours at an average of 152 Watts and burnt 1500 kCal. Details of the ride are here http://trainingstagebuch.org/public/show/1723343

So what I wanted to say is that it very much depends on your trainingslevel and your trainingstarget. Of course I do much harder units, but there are the slow ones as well, as they serve to improve other parts of my fitness. Not counting a training that burnt 1500 kCal would be crazy, even if it is by definition on the border between zone 1 and zone 2 wouldn't it?

I agree however, that darts is not any kind of fitness training, the same goes for chess by the way.

As a darts fan myself does anyone care to tell me how many players they know who are obese/fat? as they don't have a clue when they see it as a sport where players drink beer. That was the 70's and 80's. rules state you can't drink while playing so they have water. Anyway it' a form of excercise to me because you have to walk to get the darts out of the board. If your doing that for hours a day while practice surely your doing something. Most players would practice for say 6 hours per day and take a 5 min break every 30 mins or so.

It would be funny if you meet players like Michael Van Gerwan, Gary Anderson, Peter Wright, James Wade, Simon Whitlock etc and say they are fat when they aren't really.

Would darts count as cardio?? Some of my friends count this as cardio and its the only form of exercise they engage in each week. What do you all think? I play too but don't see it as exercise

Throwing spiky things at the wall, darts?

I don't see how anyone could get their HR up high enough doing that to count it as cardio, unless they are sprinting from the line to the board and back every time they fetch the darts.

Agreed. If darts count, then so do video games. Hell, I bet I can get a higher heart rate playing a FPS than I could with freakin' darts. lol.

As a darts fan myself does anyone care to tell me how many players they know who are obese/fat? as they don't have a clue when they see it as a sport where players drink beer. That was the 70's and 80's. rules state you can't drink while playing so they have water. Anyway it' a form of excercise to me because you have to walk to get the darts out of the board. If your doing that for hours a day while practice surely your doing something. Most players would practice for say 6 hours per day and take a 5 min break every 30 mins or so.

It would be funny if you meet players like Michael Van Gerwan, Gary Anderson, Peter Wright, James Wade, Simon Whitlock etc and say they are fat when they aren't really.

I think you burned more calories resurrecting this Zombie thread.

As a darts fan myself does anyone care to tell me how many players they know who are obese/fat? as they don't have a clue when they see it as a sport where players drink beer. That was the 70's and 80's. rules state you can't drink while playing so they have water. Anyway it' a form of excercise to me because you have to walk to get the darts out of the board. If your doing that for hours a day while practice surely your doing something. Most players would practice for say 6 hours per day and take a 5 min break every 30 mins or so.

It would be funny if you meet players like Michael Van Gerwan, Gary Anderson, Peter Wright, James Wade, Simon Whitlock etc and say they are fat when they aren't really.

I think you burned more calories resurrecting this Zombie thread.

OMG....lmao. Totally fell for zombie resurrection thread.

If that's the case, we should all count eating as cardio. After all, we have to walk to the refrigerator, and move our arm up and down to bring the fork to our mouths... Plus all that chewing! Whew, working hard! :huh:

OMG NO!!!!!!!!! Darts? when I played the only exercise was walking to the bar to get more drinks

You know what? Just to play devil's advocate, I'm saying, YES. Yes it IS cardio.

I'm also saying that visiting the boys' room in between beers is weight loss.

Only if I were having to dodge them.

darts is code right? it's code....



if it's code...then YES.....

and i'm the dartboard.

Plus, the obligatory 12 oz curls.

lightweight.... 16oz is better

Remember: a pint's a pound, the world around.